The recent developments in the research area of multimodal learning and entity extraction have shown a significant shift towards enhancing the integration and alignment of different data modalities, such as text, images, and knowledge graphs. Innovations in this field are primarily focused on improving the efficiency and accuracy of cross-modal retrieval, entity alignment, and cognitive diagnosis models. Researchers are increasingly leveraging advanced techniques such as knowledge-enhanced cross-modal prompt models, multi-modal consistency and specificity fusion frameworks, and dual-fusion cognitive diagnosis frameworks to address the challenges of insufficient data and the need for more robust models in open learning environments. Notably, there is a growing emphasis on real-time processing and adaptation, as evidenced by the introduction of real-time event joining systems and test-time adaptation methods for cross-modal retrieval. Additionally, the use of multi-modal prior knowledge and dimension information alignment is being explored to enhance visual representation learning and image-text matching tasks. These advancements not only improve the performance of existing models but also pave the way for more versatile and adaptable systems in various application domains, such as healthcare, finance, and intelligent education.
Particularly noteworthy are the papers introducing the Knowledge-Enhanced Cross-modal Prompt Model (KECPM) for Joint Multimodal Entity-Relation Extraction, which demonstrates significant improvements in few-shot learning scenarios, and the Dual-Fusion Cognitive Diagnosis Framework (DFCD), which shows superior performance in open student learning environments by integrating different modalities. Additionally, the Generalized Structural Sparse Function (GSSF) for Deep Cross-modal Metric Learning offers a novel approach to capturing relationships across modalities efficiently, while the Test-time Adaptation for Cross-modal Retrieval (TCR) method effectively addresses the query shift problem in real-world scenarios.